Are Atheists Really Hated in the US?

[Doubting Thomas]

Well now, it's funny you mention immoral hedonists. What's a person, like me, a newcommer, supposed to think when the first thing I see are avatars of cartoon characters having sex, or a figure with a large erection, or even your avatar, which I think is some woman from a magazine, or in other atheist forums where half the posts are in some way about sex, sexual freedom, homosexuality, sex with animals, etc?

I'm not saying atheists are all immoral hedonists, but one would certainly get that impression by visiting atheists sites on the web.

Maybe we're not a bunch of sexually repressed people who pretend we don't like sex on the outside while enjoying in secret what we condemn in public. No, with us you're getting what you see. If you can't handle that people like to have sex, then you have serious psychological issues. And you may as well give up trying to control everyone's sex lives like most Christians try to do, because people like sex and there's not a damn thing you can do about it, no matter how much you threaten eternal hellfire.

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I live in "The Buckle of the Bible Belt" (google it)

I've used that phrase for years to describe where I live (and some surrounding areas which are even more religious). It's nothing to drive down the road and see signs that say "Pray to end abortion" or see a church on every block. In fact my nephew who is attending college told me that some of the foreign students are kind of scared of our society because it's so religious.